Juan C. Ordonez

Department and/or Center Affiliation:

Mechanical Engineering Department, SESEC and Center for Advanced Power Systems

Address: 2525 Pottsdamer St, Building A Room 229 Tallahassee, FL 32310

Phone: (850) 644-8405 Fax: (850) 410-6337

E-mail: ordonez@eng.fsu.edu

Education:
PhD, Duke University, 2003

Energy-Related Research Interests:

• Thermodynamic optimization of advanced energy systems
• Fuel cell modeling and optimization
• Solar-thermal energy systems
• Combined heat and power (CHP) energy systems
• Fuel cell based hybrid power systems
• Heat driven refrigerators (e.g. absorption)
• Waste heat recovery
• Heat exchanger optimization
• Rational Use of Energy programs
• Constructal theory
• Optimization of fluid networks for minimum pumping power and minimum thermal resistant
• Biomass: modeling and utilization
• Poly-generation (e.g. cogeneration and trigeneration)